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O Pioneers Willa Cather Flashcards

1
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Author of autobiography my left foot
Also famous for this

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Christie brown
Painter who was famous for painting with his left foot

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Partners in the movie RIPD

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Ryan Reynolds and Jeff bridges

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Designed to fit in the holes of crocs

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Jibbitz
Juh bits

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4
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A plumber from Nebraska Steve Henson invented this salad dressing

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Ranch

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Set record at 84 Grammys with most Grammys in a night -8 for this album
Also one year prior this band who collaborated with the 84 artist won album of the year and record of the year

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M Jackson thriller -84
Toto - record of the year Rosanna in 83

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6
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This series of NBC public service announcements wqs created in 89 with first year dedicated to educating on the importance of teachers

Still airs today

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The more you know

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7
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During the civil war what were Elmira Andersonville and Johnson island

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Prison camps
Both north and south
Johnson island in Ohio ? North ?

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Immensely popular online multiplayer game released in 18 with little fanfare but wqs top free gaming app in 20 on apple
Players are either crew mates or imposters and compete on 1 of 3 maps

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Among us

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9
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Last update to thr dow
2021

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Exxon Mobil
Raytheon
Pfizer
Added apple sales force Honeywell
Dupont-19
Generalelectric -18

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Longest tenured company in the Dow

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P&G
Might turn the tide of thr match

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Rush rush song
91

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Paula Abdul

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C3 C4 and CAM are thr three main types of this scientific process

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Photosynthesis

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13
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A s’more is made with this type of cracker

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Graham

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Cyclonic and straight suction are 2 types of this household item

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Vacuum

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The pink fairy is the smallest species of this animal

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Armadillo

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These 2 capitals of thr ROC and DROC lie across from each other on opposite banks of this river

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Kinshasa and Brazzaville
On the Congo

Kin sha suh
Brahz uh ville

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A harrowing voyage up thr congo river around 1890 was the basis for this 1902 Joseph Conrad tale

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The heart of darkness

18
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Thr Congo roses in part in thr highlands of Zambia before traveling 2.9K miles in a giant arc to this ocean

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Atlantic

19
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This ritzy word that means put on in French is a layered sewing technique

A

App luh k

20
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In myth this woman bought time by un weaving a burial shroud meant for husbands father lay air Ts

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Penelope
O diss e is is long suffering wife

21
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This word from heraldry is also the name of a simple stitch of repeating V shapes

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Chevron

22
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A boook about pope and the forging of American science points out that in his one year at this school Edgar was great at math

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West Point

23
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Laura dassow walls tried to capture this many sided man in a book Published 200 years after his 1817 birth in concord

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Thoreau

24
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Teken from the title of one of her poems mad girls live song is a bio about this 20th century women and her life before Ted

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Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes is the Ted

25
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Jenn shapland my autobiography of this heart is a lonely hunter writer looks at her sexuality

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Carson McCullers

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Super infinite is a bio of this man of Shakespeare time known for sexy poems and later strongly moral sermons

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John done

27
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Congo river basin supports the second largest rainforest on earth home to this so called Pygmy chimpanzee
Pig me

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Bonobos

28
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The boyoma falls below which the Congo river becomes more navigable were once names for this explorer who sought dr Livingstone
Boy oh muh

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Stanley

29
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The bombing of thr city of Darwin is featured in this 08 baz luhrmann epic

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Australia

30
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In this 52 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse

A

Viva zapata

31
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This actor plies zac efron with showbiz dreams shots of booze and dancing in thr greatest showman

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Hugh Jackman

32
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10 years after Newman and Redford Tom berenger and William kat played this duo in their early days

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

33
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Slang for an offspring of a celeb who becomes a celeb too

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Nepo baby
Nehp O

34
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Born in flint this prolific documentarian wrote the book dude where’s my country

A

Michael moore

35
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Long before becoming NY governor and not beating Truman this oh whas o born man graduated from university of Michigan in 23

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Dewey

36
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Tragically this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along these other 2 astronauts

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Roger chaff e
Gus Grissom and Ed white

37
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Nobel banquet held here in this room

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Blue hall in Stockholm

38
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This situation means one neg consequences leads to another ; popularized in Jim Collins book good to great

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Doom loop

39
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In 40 this odd couple comedy duo left Hal roach studios and soon signed with 20th century fox

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Lauren and hardy

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